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Mahajan and Muller (Mahajan, V., E. Muller. 1986. Advertising pulsing policies for generating awareness for new products. Marketing Sci.5 89–106.) have written a valuable paper that analyzes a particular class of advertising policies under the assumption of an S-shaped response function. As we shall discuss, their results highlight the need for new empirical research to answer crucial questions about what constitutes a pulse and the extent to which S-shaped responses exist.